Panama, December 1989: a Soldier's Eyewitness Account
Who is the enemy? Who is an innocent bystander? When can I use force and how much force should I use? The answers to these questions vary according to the role of the soldier and the rules of engagement under which he is operating at a particular time and in a particular place on the battlefield. We owe the American solder, who for future ......
Explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalisation of Jewish life in Germany since the fall of the Wall. The volume includes topics such as the social and institutional role of Jews; the role of religion in daily life; and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.
Explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalisation of Jewish life in Germany since the fall of the Wall. The volume includes topics such as the social and institutional role of Jews; the role of religion in daily life; and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Australia and New Zealand extensively deregulated their economies to create two of the most open markets in the industrialized world. Drawing on interviews with more than 180 policymakers in Australia and New Zealand, this book analyzes the factors that made the deregulation process different in these countries.
The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985
How did rock music and other products of Western culture come to pervade youth culture in Brezhnev-era Dniepropetrovsk, a Ukrainian city essentially closed to outsiders and heavily policed by the KGB? In Rock and Roll in the Rocket City, Sergei I. Zhuk assesses the impact of Westernization on the city's youth, examining the degree to which the ......
Brazil has undergone transformative change since the 1980s, from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society advancing on all fronts - political, social, economic, and diplomatic. This title traces the evolution of this member of the BRICS group over the last twenty-five years.
Rick Bucklers autobiography is the first from a member of The Jam. He provides a year by year account of The Jam's progress whilst describing what it was like being a part of the music industry during the 70's and 80's. A must read for any Jam fan.
Enriched with personal anecdotes of the author's trips throughout the national parks of North America, this book examines changes in the park services of the United States and Canada over the past fifteen years. William Lowry describes the many challenges facing the parks and the abilities of the agencies to deal with them.
From the first rumblings of the Moral Majority in the 1980s, the Christian Right has been marshalling its forces in an effort to re-shape the landscape of American politics. This work makes an historical analysis of the Christian Right in state politics during its heyday, 1980 to the millennium.
